The cutdown trailer we see (again, no pilot available, and this is ibid for the rest of the CW's schedule) is set to a song that proclaims, You make me want to fly, you make me want to try...

Living the dream

More to the point: the mansions, the swank cars, the plutocratic millieu. We just saw all this in "90210," but now it's back again, albeit on the other side of the country, in "Privileged," an adaptation of the novel, "How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls."

The gist: An Ivy League-educated aspiring writer-turned-tutor attempts to bring some culture into the dizzy, self-indulgent heads belonging to a pair of unfathomably rich heiresses in Palm Beach.

The tag line, courtesy of producer Rina Mimoun: "When you want to change the world sometimes you have to start with two spoiled teenagers."

And maybe that's true. But it also seems significant to note how many shows take place in and among the upperest classes in the US of A. Because who doesn't like to project themselves into a world of mansions and fancy cars? Where you have really honed abs and shiny hair that hangs just so? And a hail of flushbulbs and paparazzi wails wherever you go?

Though "Privileged," as with so many of these shows, also gives the viewer a kind of moral out: the fish out of water character, plunked down in the middle of it all with an expression of perpetual alarm (tinged with just a bit of joyous surprise) on his/her face.

Everyone's role model

Here, that character is a tutor, Megan (JoAnna Garcia) who not only comes with a degree from Yale, (smart n serious!) but also with a crushing load of student loans. A scholarship student, you see. Moral high ground could not come with a more vertiginous view.

Talk about living the dream: limitless resources, endless free time, a clear conscience. "Privileged," indeed.